Cleaning Out the Web Closet

So, I've decided I need to go through all of my bookmarks and blog on them. These are bookmarks for stories I've been meaning to blog on that go back as far as the 90s. A lot of the source articles have disappeared from the 'net while many more are simply not worth blogging on thanks to current events. Like I don't need to blog on pre-2003 "rumors" that there weren't any WMD in Iraq. So, for the next few weeks expect to see a lot of entries about stories and articles from months and years ago.

One amusing story I've come across was cyber "journalist" Matt Drudge's opinion of Mel Gibson's bloodfest, Passion of the Christ. Here's what Drudge said in an interview with Pat Buchanan that Drudge reposted on his site (you can still read it [http://drudgereport.com/flashbp.htm|here]):

This may be the last movie Mel Gibson makes, Pat Buchanan. This is the ultimate film. It's magical. Best picture I have seen in quite some time, and even people like Jack Valenti were in the audience in tears at this screening. There was about 30 of us. It depicts a clash between Jesus and those who crucified him, and speaking as a Jew, I thought it was a magical film that showed the perils of life on earth.

That's pretty funny--dude must have seen the director's cut because the movie I saw was hideous and in the language of cinema, anti-Jew, big time. Read [http://pocketreviews.net/passion-of-the-christ-2|my Pocket Review] to find out what I thought of it.

I just find it amusing to see how clearly Drudge was trying to show off how cool he was to have seen it ahead of everyone else and how he wasn't a "hater."

Anyway, stay tuned for more walks down memory lane--or down the memory hole, depending on how you want to look at it.